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Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:52:20 -0800
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> It's not harmless.  mkpasswd -d will result in an error message on
> stand alone systems.  


Seems to me that mkpasswd could be made smart enough to try -d and if an 
error is returned issue a warning that it's switching to -l mode.

> It's actually the other way around.  mkpasswd -l
> is harmless on domain members and domain controllers.


It's also less useful IMHO.




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